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An electric window only needs to be operated by a switch............a starter motor don't need a computer, everyone is obsessed with ramming a chip up the rear end of everything that will stand still for long enough. A BCM............jeez, never heard of that, is it the same as a BSI?

A car with a carb will start perfectly if it is in tune, if it ain't it is down to lack of maintenance n not down to MAFF sensor/ crank sensor/ cam sensor/ lamda sensor/ fuel rail sensor/ engine temp sensor/ clutch position sensor.......... electric windows...........great but don't need a...

If you can drive a car sensibly.................you don't need any of those things, let's face it, the speed limit is either 30 or 40 in most places, people commute...........we ain't driving on the Nurbergring!

And tell me.............do you have one?

Gone are the wonderful days of no electronics, just a lovely old carburettor!! So now it's all about computers that run everything. We have the engine computer (ECU) and we have the everything else computer (BSI). If any of these go wrong, the whole set must be replaced (ECU and BSI and the...

Hi gang, it's been just over 3 days since I plastered my eye............it's healing nicely , isn't painful anymore n not so red. Foolishly, I thought only cement was naughty, over the years I've had grit etc etc in the eye without many problems, I thought washing out eyes was just to get out...

If this is in your house, I'd rough it right up with the teeth of a saw blade or use an angle grinder(to cut into the plaster underneath), once it's nice n scratched up, paint on pva, wait until it goes a bit sticky n then smack on a couple of coats of multifinish

So, over 40 years I've done plenty of house bashing and enough plastering to be able to do my own ceilings if they aren't bigger than 12 x 12 feet. This time though, I had the luck to get a dollop right in the eye!.............jeez, that seized my eye up instantly. Eventually I got most out n...

'You can control it from your phone'.....................and why would you want to do that? is it because once in a while you may save 50p on the gas?.............that'll be worth the £3/4/500 investment won't it? Or have I missed the point? Same as a smart meter..................most normal...

Jeez.......why can't anything remain the same? it seems like everything changes every 5 years! with all this change, the only constant that's left is confusion!!

Brilliant!...........well done Loop...............is the test you're talking about the same as a periodic report?

I've had a side and rear extension built (no extra bedrooms), but the council BCO says he wants an electrical certificate before he will sign off the whole job. I never thought at the start I had to tell the council I was having the old house wiring and fusebox replaced. An electrician did the...

I have spent the last 5 years doing my house up including (at the start) having a replacement 17th edition twin RCD 10 way fusebox and a complete rewire. Now that the building work is completed I need to give the council an electrical certificate. I've asked a sparks to do this, but he thinks he...

When I was in your situation, I bought a £70 'kango' from screwfix n chiselled the painted pebbledash off back to brick n then the plasterers applied the new render straight onto a surface that wouldn't give any possible problems 15 years down the line.

Surveyor's are a total waste of money Wood, they spend more time writing all their get out clauses there's no room left on their report for any worthwhile facts. I suppose my real question is, do private BCo's send in a report to the council, so the council add it to their database just like the...

Hi gang, I went to see a house that had had every internal wall knocked out downstairs (all looked great). So I looked up the house on it's building control search site, no entries except for the replacement windows. So I think 'the dodgy buggers haven't done it the correct way', but then I...

It seems like we have the same daughter Algas..............does yours want a double garage at the bottom of the garden too?

The knockthrough will be structural..............I presume I will have to supply structural engineer calculations to prove the beam n padstones can support the load?

Bring back the 80's.............we all drove ford capri's, superhero's had 3 litres and everyone bashed houses about as they pleased! Is the regs procedure gonna take 6 weeks to get approval or is it quicker than that?

I'm doing this for my daughter..............no drawings, just lovely old dad with a nice little steel n 40 years of bashing houses about